Sentence examples for class drain from inspiring English sources

He pledged to press on with controversial reforms, such as private NHS treatment centres, to avoid the middle class drain.

I had never spent time around a world-class, drain-the-keg loon before.

Chuck Hassebrook of the CFRA argues that small farms sustain the rural middle class; consolidation drains it.

An increasing middle-class "brain drain" of British professionals moving abroad to live and work is raising concerns about future skills shortages in the UK, Home Office research has found.

These subjects are worth probing (and a cameo appearance by Oscar Wilde anticipates the ideological land mines that lie ahead), but not in turgid speeches and static drawing-room scenes that confine the conflict to the upper classes and drain the life from the story.

Students commonly arrive for class feeling drained after a tough day and leave feeling refreshed and revitalized.

However, 62% of the burned area in 2004 was associated with well drained class and only 25% with combined poorly and very poorly drained classes (Figure 1).

In contrast, of the burned area between 1950 and 2003, 34% was associated with well drained class and 59% with the combined poorly and very poorly drained classes.

However, 62% of the burned area in 2004 was associated with well drained class and only 25% with combined poorly and very poorly drained classes.

Within the soil drainage factor, poorly to very poorly drained class had the highest FR value of 2.66, followed by waterlogged (swampy) area with the FR value of 2.21.

Brooke kept nodding off as he sat watching us eat — the class had really drained him — but Peggy kept him up until 9 o'clock, when his hourlong bedtime ritual begins.